Year: 2004

468×60 isn’t the only banner ad size out there. The IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) has an standard set of sizes. Their site kinda stinks since you can’t view all the banner ad sizes on one page. In fact, I can’t…

This review is by the 14th Floor Soda Beverage Review Crew of Chicago Upon pouring the beverage out, we were quite surprised to see the color of the liquid was red. Quite appropriate for the holidays. However, someone screamed and…

oh yeah. red zinger tea is so tastytown. It tastes like the sidewalk smeared with red berries. Really! it does! and it DOES taste good. mmmmm. Ingredients: Hibiscus, sidewalk, rosehips, lemon grass, licorice root, natural flavors, and citric acid

A directory of cell phone numbers will be published soon. This opens the door to solicitors calling your cell phones using up your minutes. The Federal Trade Commission has set up a do not call list. You must call FROM…

“Now is time for question, please anyone ask question. One question, ten dollars. Two question, eight dollars. Three question, five dollars.” He said this in joking, of course. It was his way of encrouraging people to ask more questions. The…

you know what feels really good? when you’re lounging in a chair or couch, and you hike the waist on your pants up over your belly button.

Yesterday online for Proclaim Joe Stowell talked about the difficulties a missionary in Brazil faces: —begin joe stowell quote— > One interesting thing I thought he said was that > during Mardi Gras, I mean it’s so raw and so…

Has anyone ever experienced this weird feeling of electric shocks in your brain? It rarely happens to me. I’m not talking about getting shivers over your body when something exciting happens. It’s literally like quick *przzzp* *przzzp* in my brain.…

With a lot of talk about morals in the news lately, here’s a drafted paper about integrity and morals I wrote a couple weeks ago. https://www.spudart.org/integrity/draft1.html

There’re many things we don’t really know. It’s an illusion that we know anything at all. If a group of aliens were to stop me and ask, “Say, bud, how many miles an hour does the earth spin at the…

A lot of people voted for Bush, because they like who he is. Straightforward. But his administration runs the show. He just gets up there all hokey dokey and looks all cute for the cameras. Look at me, I’m human…

“a typical November hosts 5 days with highs at or above 60∆í” -Tom Skilling

mine was fun. it’s always fun to vote. i like punching holes in things. Seriously, even if i was asked to show up at my local church’s gym just to punch holes in a card, i would.

All these standard umbrellas of black, so boring it makes me wanna yak. Occasionally there’s red or gray still, those don’t make my day. Those colors get the thumbs down. But seriously, i want an umbrella of BROWN.

Hotwheels makes some nice die-cast metal cars. Matchbox on the other hand makes all very crappy ones. It’s embarrasing the stuff that matchbox puts out. Then much to my surprise, I just found out today that hotwheels and matchbox are…

Here’s some random notes about Piero talking about measure: “Every day I work in measure. Sometimes I forget the dimension.” * Human measure * Natural measure * Artificial measure Language another kind of measure. Ants use the same 011100010101 langauge…

For Halloween, I want to get eight ventilation tubes from Home Depot (like in the image above). Cut them down to about five feet long and attach them to a plastic garbage can. Put the garbage can over my head,…

It’s so much fun to have a different wallpaper (desktop picture) on your computer every 15 minutes. (on mac os x, it can randomly change the wallpaper at a specificed interval). So i’m looking for a bunch of new wallpapers.…

Part of his reaction to the question from the audience, “How have new tools like computers influenced the way you work?”: “You use pen as tool–fine. You use computer as brain–no.” “I have the macintosh. I no plug wires into…

It’s a curious thing why people like to make homemade signs to hold up at a sporting event. The World Series is going on now and there are many Red Sox fans at Fenway Park holding signs hoping for that…

Here is a comic strip from 10/19/2004: Send your Candy Corn Flavored Pumpkins to: 2202 S. Figueroa St. Box #123 Los Angeles, CA 90007

“Curiosity is like a synapsis. If you have synapsis, then you have curiosity. If you have curiosity, then you are a designer.” Source: 9/23/2004 talk by Italian designer Piero Lissoni at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago

What if inanimate objects could talk? What would they say?

For some fun photos, run around a tree and take pictures. You’ll get some interesting results. Check out some photos I took outside Chicago’s brown line stop at Western Ave: https://www.spudart.org/photo/20041011/ I’m trying to decide which one of these to:…

I’m designing a brochure for KRT Campus, and I was looking for some dramatic images. Normally, you’d do a search for: drama, dramatic, powerful, happy, sad, joyful, and all those other words in the thesaurus. But here’s a trick… look…

The PBS special about Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis is now on sale today. I have to admit, while watching it on tv, I feel asleep half way through. I much more recommend the book, “Mere Christianity.” Also available today:…

can you believe there are no webpages with the phrase “twice half great“? that’s crazy. You say this phrase when you want to express the greatness of something, because twice of half is the full. So to say something is…

Millennium Park in Chicago is very civilized. After awhile I couldn’t stand to be there. Too civilized. I need to go to uncivilization. To touch. Comments: This made me very curious, because Millenennium park is a park after all. Maybe…

Laura has started a campaign to get a Papa Johns into the city of Chicago. She sent the following to Papa Johns: when o when will you open a Chicago location? i have been waiting for so long. you force…

In the sentence, “I feel so bad,” the word “so” expresses the bad feeling to a greater extent. “So” is making what you say so much stronger. But if you combine two “so”s next to each other they only express…

I have a notepad with a monthly updated to do list. This page gets looked at very frequently. It would be a good idea to put some bible verses at the bottom to be a good reminder of how God…